Online Casino News

Boyd Gaming buys Coast Casinos Inc. - 2004-02-10
Boyd Gaming, proprietor of the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J., announced yesterday it was buying Coast Casinos Inc. in a $820 million cash-stock agreement consolidating two longtime Las Vegas-based gambling companies.

The merged company will acquire 17 properties nationwide, with 9,050 rooms and earnings of about $2 billion. In Las Vegas, the company will have 11 hotel-casinos with a total of 5,300 rooms.
Read the full story at Asbury Park Press

Obsessive gambling consultant to speak Friday - 2004-02-10
Concerned Citizens against the Casino will present speaker Tom Tucker, president of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of California, at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 13 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hesperia.

Tucker will speak about “Problem Gambling: All Its Aspects.”
Tucker has had widespead experience as a gambling counselor and trainer. He designed the California Certified Gambling Counselor Training Course (CCGC) and conducted the first ever professional gambling counselor training Moscow, Russia.
Read the full story at Hesperia Star